All sessions are held at Atelier Kissaria except for the workshop led by Leire Vergara, which includes a walk in the city on the second day and culminates with a collective listening event on the last day.

TALKS & WORKSHOPS

3-6 June 2019

Co-Imagination

Co-Investigator: Daniel Blanga Gubbay

After an introduction to historical and philosophical notions of co-imagination, coooperation and co-authorship, participants will explore possibilities to enact co-imagination as part of their practices.

Location in Reverse

Co-investigator: Leire Vergara

My trajectory as a curator has always departed from the urge to establish a dialogue with a given context, being this part of my own milieu or unfamiliar before developing the work. The notion of context can be understood in many different ways. It can be approached through its physical, geographical, social, cultural and political conditions or even through its affective degree, so to say, through the community of interlocutors that conforms it and therefore receives and even transforms the delivered artistic or curatorial practice. In provisional locations, the difficulty lies in approaching this affective space and being able to prolong the dialogue beyond the limits of the given time framework. In my work, the challenges have been always varied, so have been the strategies employed to establish a position within known or unknown contexts or locations. Locations are always dependent of temporal conditions and therefore curatorial imagination should be projected onto their full dimension.

TIMETABLE

Sunday 2 June 2019

11am-6pm

WELCOME TO TANGIER

Registration and get-together with the participants and co-investigators

Monday, 3 June 2019

10am-5pm

INTRODUCTION
Participants and co-investigators present their own practices

10:00am A Reflection on Self-Organization
Presentation: DBG & LV

10:30 Dialogue with participants

Six participants present a single project where there is some issue of self-organization, collaboration, cooperation or co-imagination at stake.

11 :00am First round of 20-minute presentations (each will be followed by a 20-minute discussion and feedback)

12 :30pm Second round of 20-minute presentations (each will be followed by a 20-minute discussion and feedback)

3:00pm A reflection on historical and philosophical notions of co-imaginationLecture by Daniel Blanga Gubbay

4:00pm Collective experiment. Led by DBG

Tuesday, 4 June 2019

11am-6pm

LOCATION IN REVERSE
Part 1 of the Workshop by Leire Vergara

11:00am Presentation by LV

“Location in Reverse” is inspired by Robert Smithson’s term “ruin in reverse” that approaches architecture (in our case location) through an inverted process by which architecture (or space) is made, revealing it not through construction, but “through the natural processes of erosion, and its by-product talus”.

The film is constructed as a cinematic annotation towards the act of scouting locations and characters. It is accompanied by the voice over of the filmmaker who throws his thoughts onto the images around the task of scouting the right locations for a film.

3:30pm Brief discussion around the film and the texts sent for the workshop (Kaja Silverman “Body Talk” from The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema and Lucy R. Lippard “On Not Having Seen the Bilbao Guggenheim” from Learning from the Bilbao Guggenheim). Led by: LV

11:00am Introduction to Part 2 of the workshop
“Location in Reverse” by LV

For the workshop, I would like to work around the notion of “location in reverse” through the use of some materials and the recording of a series of sonic captures that will help us to project curatorial reflections around self-organisation as a site-specific practice. The materials will be employed as models to articulate a problem within the endeavour of establishing a dialogue within a temporal location, this is, the difficulty of setting a position within short-term conditions. In this sense, the workshop aims to depart from the location in which it will be based during the time of its duration. The work developed will look at the challenges implied in such determination and will try to pose questions around self-organisation and its potentialities, when considered as a site-specific commitment.